Nicholson Peninsula
Nicholson Peninsula is a broad ice-covered peninsula about 15 nautical miles long, between Couzens Bay and Matterson Inlet on the Shackleton Coast on the west side of the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica.- Peninsula
- …lies at an elevation of around 640 metres (2,090 feet)
- …is named after Captain M.W. Nicholson
- Description: peninsula in Antarctica
- Category: landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-80.71667° or 80° 43′ south
Longitude
160° east
Open location code
2VF272M2+82
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OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peninsula
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Nicholson Peninsula” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Nicholson Peninsula”
- Chinese: “尼科爾森半島”
- German: “Nicholson-Halbinsel”
- Italian: “Penisola Nicholson”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nicholson Peninsula”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nicholson Peninsula”
- Norwegian: “Nicholson Peninsula”
- Swedish: “Nicholson Peninsula”
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